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Night is a world lit by itself.

Antonio Porchia

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Antonio Porchia
Age: 81 †
Born: 1886
Born: November 25
Died: 1968
Died: November 6
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Every time I wake, I understand how easy it is to be nothing.
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I will help you approach if you approach, and to keep away if you keep away.
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Yes, one must suffer, even in vain, so as not to have lived in vain.
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You know so much about me and yet you don't understand me. To know is not to understand. We could know everything and still not understand anything.
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Certainties are arrived at only on foot.
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If those who owe us nothing gave us nothing, how poor we would be.
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Man, when he does not grieve, hardly exists.
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Humanity does not know where to go because no one is waiting for it: not even God.
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Even the smallest of creatures carries the sun in its eyes.
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My bits of time play with eternity.
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He who does not fill his world with phantoms remains alone.
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When I look for my existence I do not look for it in myself.
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Without this ridiculous vanity that takes the form of self-display, and is part of everything and everyone, we would see nothing, and nothing would exist.
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If a fanatic is willing to give his life for a cause, he's probably willing to give yours as well I know what I have given you. I do not know what you have received
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My truths do not last long in me. Not as long as those that are not mine.
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He who goes step by step always finds himself level with a step.
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Out of a hundred years a few minutes were made that stayed with me, not a hundred years.
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When your suffering is a little greater than my suffering I feel that I am a little cruel.
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I have scarcely touched the sky and I am made of it.
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I believe that the soul consists of its sufferings. For the soul that cures its own sufferings dies.
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